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  • BAKU: Oskanian: Results of voting will be a signal to Azerbaijan

    Today, Azerbaijan
    March 15 2008


    Armenian Foreign Minister: "I hope the results of voting will be a
    signal to Azerbaijan from the international community"

    15 March 2008 [14:08] - Today.Az

    The results of UN voting on the draft resolution on Nagorno Karabakh
    have become a specific barometer of mood in the international
    community.

    The due announcement is contained in the comment of Armenia's
    Foreign Ministry regarding discussions of the document, presented to
    Azerbaijan.

    In the result, only 39 states, representing GUAM and Organization of
    Islamic Conference, supported the resolution. OSCE Minsk Group
    co-chairs including the United States, France and Russia, as well as
    Armenia and a number of other countries, voted against it and over
    150 countries preferred to abstain from voting", the comment says.

    "I hope the results of voting will be a signal for Azerbaijan from
    the side of the international community", Armenian Foreign Minister
    Vardan Oskanyan said adding that most UN member-states rejected the
    unilateral approach to this issue.

    The Armenian Foreign Minister assessed Azerbaijan's resolution as
    hypocritical. On the one hand, the document, presented by official
    Baku, is an attempt to mislead the world community, and on the other
    hand, the resolution contains a paragraph about support of mediation
    efforts of the OSCE MInsk Group co-chairs, who had previously
    disagreed with the presented document and voted against it.

    The Armenian Foreign Minister are concerned with the further actions
    of official Baku. The issue is whether Azerbaijan will further
    undermine the peaceful process and sit at a negotiation table.

    The Foreign Minister again confirmed the readiness of Serzh
    Sarkissyan, newly elected president of Armenia, to meet with
    Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev upon agreement of the latter and
    the OSCE Minsk Group. Vardan Oskanyan said this is possible and added
    that by rejecting Azerbaijan's resolution the international community
    demonstrated support for the document which is on the negotiation
    table and which allows to attain bring closer the principles of the
    right of peoples for self-determination and territorial integrity of
    the states, initially seeming differing.

    "This document gives an impetus to the negotiation process between
    Armenia and Azerbaijan", the Armenian Foreign Minister said.

    /Regnum/

    URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/43746.html
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